It's a quick one from me during what is a quiet week on the racing front, and I have to admit my eyes will be on the cricket at Headingley over the next five days, where I'm hoping to carry on my winning run. I've rarely punted in cricket before but have discovered an edge involving the exchanges - excuse the pun - which has been working well for me. Four winning bets from four so far, but it's early days!
Briefly on the racing front, I mentioned a horse called Orpsie Boy during Royal Ascot week as one I was looking to back in the Wokingham but he was a non-runner on the day, before a below-par reappearance at Windsor a week later.
I didn’t back him at Windsor, as I stated here before the race, and despite the stable still struggling for winners – only one winner since April – it was encouraging to read a positive gallops report about him in the Newmarket ‘Aborigine’ section of this week’s Racing and Football Outlook. It reported that “the way he has started tackling his work on the Cambridge Road Polytrack leaves no doubt he is a winner waiting in the wings".
He is entered for both the Hong Kong Sprint Stakes and the Stewards’ Cup and a winner from the Nick Littmoden stable in the meantime would be a positive sign.
Good luck with any bets over the weekend, and keep an eye out for a horse called Jaconet if running on Monday at Ayr.
She beat Bonne (second), who hosed up earlier today at Nottingham, and Mandalay King (third), who improved to win at Hamilton, in an Ayr sprint (July 6) that may be appearing in the Top Of The Form chart next week.
Friday, 18 July 2008
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At last! i managed to find your blog about 3 months ago,then after repeated attempts and a plea for help to RFO I kept drawing a blank. unil today. (now added to favourites).
Congratulations on becoming a father to be and yes everything you've been told is true. life and your attitude to it will change - for the better of course. Also it wil speed up. One minute life's a pleasant canter over three miles, the next it feels like a fast five at Epsom and before you know it, your son/daughter is on the verge of adulthood.
i.m sure you remember me Dave, even though i became unreliable. ( i kept losing your new number, and i was going through personal problems at the time even to the point of losing interesting in racing.
But I will never forget a certain friday in June 1999 when after 20 excruciating minutes waiting on a photo, you came tearing out of the rest room, £8k to the better and a plan come to fruition. You were a big influence in my approach to betting. And I am genuinely pleased you have carved a career out of the game. What a shock i got in WH Smith about three years ago. I'm browsing through Racing Ahead and there's this bloke writing about the jumps and - it's you. The sprint fan who would go into racing hibernation during the winter months.
Finally,thanks for the winners that have come my way via TOTF. As corny as it really is the first page I turn to in RFO each week.
Tom Bromham
PS. have you bought copious amounts of earplugs yet, Dad?
Good luck for the birth although it won't be you doingthe hard work and I'm looking forward to NH trends revealed, although, i gotta say, it tickles me that it's you writing about jumps. What price would that have been at the turn of the century?
Hi Tom,
Of course I remember your goodself, and of the legendary day at Ladbrokes, when we were granted an extra half an hour break to recover after the Wokingham!
Good to hear from you, hope you are keeping well - where are you living/working now?
Glad you're making a few quid backing the Top Of The Form runners. I appreciate it's not easy keeping up with all the runners from the Top 20 and when they are entered, but I try to list the ones I've mentioned in my RFO copy on this blog along with entries. There are long-term plans for the entries to be included in the RFO weekly entries.
Yes, times are hectic at the moment with a baby on the way, plus all the writing for the new jumps book, and my two weekly columns in the Racing & Footbal Outlook (TOTF) and Irish Field (trends).
I won't be keeping up this schedule forever, though, especially once the baby is here. Like you say, a lot of my time will be spent in that area which I'm looking forward to - life doesn't revolve around the sprint handicap at Beverley anymore.
Anyway, keep in touch via this blog and hopefully we can meet up at a race meeting in the near future - preferably before it gets cold!
David
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